October 2011
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Kiwi PyCon, DjangoCon US, and PyCodeConf Recap
I just got back from a long conference circuit, attending and speaking at PyCon Australia, Kiwi PyCon, DjangoCon US, and PyCodeConf. It was a ton of work, but it was a blast. I got to blog about PyCon Australia already, but then the time in between the other conferences was just a bit too hectic to blog. Kiwi PyCon 2011 I gave the opening keynote speech at Kiwi PyCon in Wellington, New...
August 2011
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Thank you, PyCon AU
I managed to squeeze my personal Python wishlist into this keynote speech about diversity in Python. More image processing options besides what we have in PIL 1.1.7, please. More attempts at Python in the browser. More Python packages in general. More diversity of Python packages. More diverse Python open-source package authors from all walks of life. “There should be one —...
July 2011
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How to create Sphinx docs the Python / Github /...
This is a full walkthrough of how to document a Python package, using https://github.com/audreyr/django-startcbv as the sample package to be documented. It probably works for non-Python packages too. Follow along with documenting a Python package of your own. Or try it with one of those poor, undocumented, lonely Python packages out there! At the command line:</div><div>pip install...
June 2011
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Call to Action: PyLadies Seattle + Sydney, AU +...
PyLadies is a worldwide community of ladies and supporting gentlemen who use the Python programming language.We are currently putting together an open-source PyLadies kit. I hope it’ll help Pythonistas in various cities start their own local chapters. There’s not much in there yet, but there will be. We’ll be putting the contents up on Read the Docs (rtfd.org) shortly....
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The penguin who owns example.com
Episode 1 of Scared of Rabbits. I feel sad for this poor little bird. Posted via email from Audrey M. Roy | Comment »
May 2011
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D+A
I met the amazing Danny Greenfeld last year and fell madly in love. Here we were tangoing at PyCon 2010. Here we are in front of the Lawrence Journal-World headquarters in Lawrence, KS, birthplace of the Django web framework. We love Lawrence! Here he was doing djymnastics around me at Djangocon 2010. (Thanks, Shawn Rider, for making this awesome video.) Here we were at PyCon 2011...
September 2010
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How to apply those "failed" changes from your...
This is what you do to apply “Will likely not apply cleanly” changes in your GitHub fork queue. git remote add ddurst http://github.com/ddurst/whydjango-ideas.git git remote update git pull ddurst master git status git push Posted via email from Audrey M. Roy | Comment »
August 2010
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Getting outgoing email to work in Django and Pinax
Django and Pinax steps(I’ve got Django 1.2, Pinax 0.9a1) First, install postfix (an SMTP server) on your VPS (in my case, a Linode node or Rackspace Cloud server). sudo apt-get install postfix Enter “yourdomain.com” when it asks you for it. There, now you have your own SMTP server. Add something like this to your settings.py so that outgoing mail comes from postfix. ...
May 2010
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How to optimize large image files for the web, the...
I use Inkscape to draw all my vector graphics nowadays. Inkscape has an analagous “Export Bitmap” feature that lets you export PNGs, but it’s pretty basic (I assume by design). But what do you do once you’ve got that 400k Twitter background .png file exported from Inkscape? Or what if you want to do better than the image compression options in Adobe Photoshop or...
April 2010
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How to make perfect sweet potato fries
Last month my friend Ruza and I tested various combinations of sweet potato fry cooking methods. Here are the results of our experiments. I was hoping to post this as an instructable, but I forgot to photograph the fries that won the experiment (they got eaten too fast). Most optimal: very crisp outsides of 90% of fries, with fully cooked middles. Only about 10% burnt. I wish I had a final photo...
Serving static websites with Amazon S3+CloudFront,...
S3 is good for serving static files in situations where you may need to deal with unexpected spikes in traffic. You can use any S3 uploader such as S3Fox or S3 Organizer to create a bucket for your files and then upload them. This requires no programming. With a couple more clicks, you can turn an S3 bucket into a CloudFront bucket. Then, the bucket can be used as a simple content delivery...
October 2009
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Pulling personal data out of OpenSocial containers...
I’ve been struggling with the OpenSocial docs and various samples, trying to find a way to pull my personal data out of my Orkut profile. First I tried out the OpenSocial Python Client library samples and the Google Friend Connect Chow Down sample. I didn’t fully understand what was going on, but I saw that I’d need a consumer key & secret. (I just learned about GFC...
{Filename?} Price It By Phone, and the Twilio API
I won the Twilio+AppEngine contest with Price It By Phone, an app that lets you look up Amazon.com book prices by touch-tone phone. Right now it’s up and running at http://price-it.appspot.com. If you try it and run into problems, please let me know! My interview with Twilio is here. I like the Twilio API a lot. It’s the easiest-to-use API imaginable. You set up your Twilio phone...
September 2009
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At brunch with @yush and @kintan. We’re all sitting quietly and tweeting right now.
The librarians & library students in Seattle know how to party. 3 librarian parties in 2 nights thx to my UW friend, so much fun
Stop multitasking! It makes your brain messy: http://bit.ly/hgREG (via @NewPsychologist)
This looks cool. RT @juliangay: django-lean open src’d at http://bit.ly/MS57q #leanstartup #django
At a cafe in Seattle’s U-District drinking white coffee. It’s made with under-roasted beans, amazing stuff
For the record, I’m not taking new jobs. Freelance illustrators, designers, developers: DM me & I’ll refer current/potential clients to you.
Snuck into 2 closed art museums this afternoon. Got kicked out of only one
The OpenSocial v0.8 API is like spaghetti, all tangled and noodley. I’m pretty determined to push forward, though, mmm
3 online/social media accounts that I daydream about deleting but never do: LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail.
OAK✈SEA for a week. Catching up with my Microsoft alum best friends, some of the coolest people I’ve ever met. #internz
Jeremiah Teipen & Benjamin S. Jones at Satori...
Earlier this week I had the chance to visit some of the galleries in Manhattan’s East Village/Lower East Side. My favorite by far was Gallery Satori. They have a main space and a project space (i.e. a side mini-gallery). The main space is currently filled with large mixed-media sculptures by Benjamin S. Jones. I was instantly drawn to these pieces, which look like exploding, radiating...
Is it safe to eat pie made from wild urban elderberries (picked in downtown Chicago, but well-cooked)?
Heard about @NYCWebgrrls via @DigitalWoman & saw that the amazing @edithyeung is speaking. Flying out tonight+can’t wait to meet everyone
Okay. I need to wrap up the revisions to my book asap. I just gave myself a public ultimatum: http://bit.ly/dWPpJ
Making sudden progress on a Python/JavaScript app involving exploding trees & rainbows. Wish I didn’t have to stop soon.
BUR > JFK tonight. I’m gonna line up at the Ed Sullivan Theatre to try and see David Letterman tomorrow #aycj
Much love → @app_engine! I updated my blog post http://bit.ly/18T0Dy. Huge thx to @mdrcode.
I rarely take anything from MSFT seriously, but @bing is pretty cool. #TechCrunch50 (Live From TechCrunch50 live > http://ustre.am/1aQE)
Why you don’t see me at geek events like TC50: http://bit.ly/17SIK0
I now own an Android G1, Samsung Instinct, & BlackBerry. iPhone, Palm Pre, & a bigger purse soon. Gotta catch ‘em all
9/13 plans, BUR/LGB folks join me: Norton Simon in Pasadena 12-5p. Pink’s (thx @anoopr) + Melrose Ave shopping 5:30-8p. #aycj
One of my fav things ever. Really, try it. RT @pinaxproject: Pinax 0.7 is now out! http://pinaxproject.com/download/
The alphabet’s pretty funny looking: Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz.
Vegas rocks for laptop work while traveling - lounges w wifi+food open 24/7, fancy (cheap) hotels, enough weirdos that you feel normal #aycj
RT @aihui: Why are there fewer female entrepreneurs, fewer female top exec? Maybe here’s why! http://ow.ly/p0k5
LGB is a tiny airport. I’m sitting in the exact center of it right now. #aycj
Cracking up at all the bizarre #djangocon tweets. @dannyroa @jamtoday @juliangay @enkido we had better go next year!
Finally gave my poor startup a website. It contains no useful info but needlessly has a processing.js flower garden: http://bit.ly/4zuD5M
At JFK on my way to SFO. Heading back in time for the Compound Gallery’s Art in a Box opening tonight. #aycj